Bethlehem /PNN /
Israeli occupation forces Tuesday demolished a house under construction in the village of Marah Mualla, south of Bethlehem.
The head of the Marah Mualla village council, Abdulla Abu Shakra, PNN correspondent that the occupation forces demolished a house under construction under the pretext that it was built without a license.
He said that it consisted of a single floor and an area of 400 square metres, and that it belonged to local resident Samir Mohammad Abu Shakra.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the occupation authorities carried out 47 demolition operations, affecting 66 facilities, including 35 inhabited homes, five uninhabited, and 15 agricultural and other facilities, in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during May.
In Hebron Israeli occupation forces Tuesday demolished a 200-square-meter house in Farsh al-Hawa area, west of the city.
Youssef Abdel-Jawad Abu Aisha, a local resident, said that the occupation forces raided the area, accompanied by heavy vehicles, and demolished the house of his brother, Tamer, in which he lives with his family of 10 members, noting that the building consists of three floors, a water well, and external walls.
He stated that the occupation forces raided the house and began demolishing it, and that the aforementioned building was licensed by the Hebron Municipality and that they had all the identification papers for ownership of the land.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the occupation authorities carried out 47 demolition operations, affecting 66 facilities, including 35 inhabited homes, five uninhabited, and 15 agricultural and other facilities, in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during the month of last May.
Also, today Israeli occupation bulldozers today uprooted about 60 olive trees in the town of Ya'bad, west of Jenin.
The head of the Umm al-Rihan Village Council, Majdi Zaid, said that the occupation bulldozers uprooted about 60 olive trees and razed large tracts of lands located inside the apartheid wall northwest of Jenin.
Zaid pointed out that the razed lands in Ya'bad area is considered an Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule.
He added that the land has an area of 3 dunams and is planted with olive and fruit trees.